Thread: Skinnying down paddle pop sticks...

This is the tool you need, well I think it is anyway as there is no piccie.

Its a small adjustable knife like plane for stripping off balsa for models.

http://www.hobbyco.com.au/product/sh...plu=MASTRIPPER

Al

Did a google image search on balsa stripper here - some pics & ideas.

Good call Al


Cheers..................Sean

Good one Sean, how come I didnt think of that..?

But yep, thats the tool to do it..

Al

I'd have no hesitation in running them through my table saw.

I'd set up a fixed fence on the sled, hold them down with a Grrripper, and just rip away. It'd take no time flat!

Cheers,

P

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

I'd have no hesitation in running them through my table saw.

I'd set up a fixed fence on the sled, hold them down with a Grrripper, and just rip away. It'd take no time flat!

Cheers,

P

With a 4mm kerf, that'll give you one strip perr pp stick.

band saw, no problems
even better a printers gilotene.
a 2" chisel.... bang, bang, bang

a slot jig with an electric planer

a different slot jig & a router

this sounds like a good asignment or competition

cheers

Originally Posted by craigb

With a 4mm kerf, that'll give you one strip perr pp stick.

Now that you mention it, I do happen to have a freud 2mm kerf blade!

Coincindentally EXACTLY two strips per stick!

cheers,

P

Originally Posted by craigb

With a 4mm kerf, that'll give you one strip perr pp stick.

Quantity is not a problem - I have 800 I think....

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

Now that you mention it, I do happen to have a freud 2mm kerf blade!

Coincindentally EXACTLY two strips per stick!

cheers,

P

There you go rhancock, take 'em round to Midge's place.
Problem solved.

Originally Posted by soundman

band saw, no problems
even better a printers gilotene.
a 2" chisel.... bang, bang, bang

a slot jig with an electric planer

a different slot jig & a router

this sounds like a good asignment or competition

cheers

I'll post a pic!

I tried the chisel,but the grain's not straight enough. Hadn't thought of a guillotine, maybe an old fashioned one with a head chopping arm?

I don't have a band saw or router or a table saw either, only a circular saw and jig saw and an electric plane. Is a slot jig a slot cut into a piece of wood to take the paddle pop stick? I could probably do that with the circular saw, but it'd need to be in a thin piece of wood so that it grips when I put it in the vice? Or 2 pieces of 9mm ply, with a couple of sticks in between to hold them out ot the right width - no need to cut then, put them in the vice, push in a paddle pop stick, tighten, run the electric plane over the top, pop it out, pop another one in... Sounds like a plan.

Much faster than whittling... This might be an occasion to let the power tools win the argument!

BitingMidge, "running them through my table saw" ??? Really? you've only got a 6mm width to hold on to, less the blade width... And a band saw? Same thing? I don't have access to either and need to start construction on Sunday, so I neither are going to be feasible this time, but really? 10mm down to 4mm on a high speed power tool?

Oh, and thanks for the balsa strippers too. It always amazes me that whatever problem you come up with someone somewhere is selling a tool to do it!

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

Now that you mention it, I do happen to have a freud 2mm kerf blade!

Coincindentally EXACTLY two strips per stick!

cheers,

P

A what?

Why not go to the hobby shop and buy some 4mm balsa strips.

Originally Posted by DavidG

Why not go to the hobby shop and buy some 4mm balsa strips.

Oh, if only... Because the lecturer has specified ppsticks, not tongue depressers, or balsa wood, or anything else, just ppsticks, or he'll fail the project. I wish I could, but instead I have to spend Sunday shaving 100 of the bl$$$dy things...